How to snag a gamer girlfriend

GamePro: "The girl gamer is a rare breed of lady. Like ninjas or flying unicorns, she remains perpetually shrouded in myth and shadow. Statistics would have us believe that over 40 percent of gamers are female - but come on. When was the last time you got trash-talked on Modern Warfare 2 by the dulcet tones of a woman? The fact is: you have a better chance of meeting a girl with an interest in Gauguin than gaming (girls are a lot smarter than us, y'see).

But that's not to say that female gamers don't exist. You just need to adopt the right mindset and know where to look.

i am a girl gamer :) The thing is we tend to not shout to the world our gender.. spec in shooting games. Nothing worse then someone picking on you because your a girl or a huge amount of guys asking you to go on mic and camera. *sigh* i <3 MW2 i have mic and a girlie voice.. they just assume i'm a little girlie voiced 10 year old boy. :p

I know quite a lot of gamer girls, they aren't that rare. Though they meet with various reactions online, while quite significant percentage of them aren't really pleasant. Trash talking, hitting on, etc., Girls game cause of the same reasons as guys, not to be constantly treated differently. They're just bunch of cool "guys", it's nice to play a bit, go out to a pub, have some beers but please, don't make a legend or fairy stories of gamer girls, it makes situation worse. There are hordes of immature guys there who'll believe it consciously or subconsciously believing it's THAT rare to meet gamer girl. While it's just pure bull... Fecal matter.

That doesn't suprise me at all. It's like in home all those people that crowd around someone with a female avatar.

The best game to get girls playing from my experience is Soul Calibre 4. All they gotta do is pick Maxi or Killik and mash some buttons to beat people. It's kinda frustrating actually, when you know they've got no idea what they're doing and you still lose :P

there's quite a few girl gamers in my course at uni....though it would be kinda obvious since i'm doing a games design course. but yeah they aren't that rare and don't go shouting there gender online. alot of girl gamers just come on consoles to play games you know...i know...it's crazy!

I to am a gamer girl who frequently gets told that 'a young boy like me shouldn't be up at this time and needs to go to bed'. Unfortunately if I am outed in a game as being female in game the majority of times I come under fire for my gender, so I normally mute everyone who isn't on my friends list from the get go. I am a mother of 2 children so I prefer not to argue with them (children) on live. I can add also that about 15% of my friends list are female.

"on Valentines Day you can surprise your WoW crush with a flower or piece of jewelry in-game. As you can imagine, this tends to go down better than shooting her in the head and tea-bagging her crumpled corpse."

As someone who is happily married to a girl gamer who is hardcore enough to import games and system directly from Japan, I have to say this article completely misses one key fact.

It acts like Girl Gamers are not still females.

Just like getting any other girl, you have to show that you have more to you than just being a sofa sitting gamer bum. You need to find something that you can excel at that will take you outside of the house so that can also attract the interest of a gamer girl that is doing the same.

In my case, DDR and Off Roading were my tickets in the door. Playing DDR in public was a great way to meet a lot of girl gamers. They would see me as a healthy, fit, and smart individual.

For a friend it was taking up Salsa dancing. He met a lot of girls there that had some gaming interest but loved that he had a talent that also was of interest to them above and beyond gaming.

For another friend it was candle making. He eventually ended up hooking up with a person he saw all the time at the shop he purchased his supplies from. She found his passion for candle making interesting and his WoW T-Shirt enabled her to start the conversation with him about gaming when she approached him.

The biggest thing is, you have to be more than just a gamer to find, impress, and date a girl. When you do so, you will be surprised just how many gamer chicks there are out there in the world that don't openly flaunt that part of their personality.

I think people who are taking this article seriously are missing the point. It appears to be a parody of 'girl gamer worship'. At the very end, they basically admit that none of it matters and you should just find a girl who you like.

i have a gamer gf, she has a psp, ps3, 360 and gaming comp. met as an anime fan and her luv for anime got her into final fantasy and other j rpgs, then to dead or alive, ninja gaiden, now we play LBP together, RE5 and any game we can.

if u dont find her in RL then ur screwed, thats all there is to it, cyber gf's are for desperates, sorry guys

I game to get away from my GF, if she got involved in gaming it would ruin independent Letros(kudos Seinfeld). It's kinda like chicks who like football, sounds great at first, then its like "wtf this is bad" as she wants to watch it with you and the guys.

My lady isn't a gamer girl, but she enjoys watching me certain games. She does play Pixel Junk shooter and LBP with me. She likes watching me play Flower, the Uncharted Series, and the God of War games. We might be splitting..lol..maybe I'll take this article into consideration, I've never been with a "gaming girl".

My boyfriend benefits from me being a gamer girl by way of part of his Christmas present from me was a pair of Turtle Beach X4.1's and for Valentines day I have bought him Mass Effect 2 Collectors Edition and Dante's Inferno Death Edition and I have let him have them early lol.

My girlfriend is a complete and utter geek, plays WoW, has her own 360, likes my PS3 and plays MW2 on the PC along with L4d/2. She is beautiful and it still amazes me that I got her. When we first started dating at Uni I was wary of admitting my 'geekier' side to her but eventually she caught me out playing WoW. She mocked me for this until one day she made her own character on my computer and I walked her through the basics of being a blood elf xD

She then went home and signed up for a 10 day trial lol and got skype and we would play together from our halls. Eventually she got more and more into games and a year after when I built a new gaming pc she took my old (but still good) gaming pc for herself with an updated graphics card and a nice shiney monitor. Now she probably games for 8 hours a day. So initially I was my normal charming ;) self all except the geeky side. Once I knew she liked me and we grew comfortable thats when my love for games appeared.

Anyways, I have never found it hard to get a girlfriend but, I have never had one with so much in common so I guess it is a rare find to get a girl with a passion for games, but it took work :D

Its amazing how much better life is when you can share a passion like that, makes them your best friend as well girlfriend lol